The CAnadian Mother-Child Initiative - knowledge mobilization from COnception to adulthood - CAMCCO-Outreach.

Over 75% of individuals take at least one medication during pregnancy. Most medications are not tested on pregnant and lactating individuals before coming to market. The impact of gestational medication use on pregnant people, children, and families across the lifespan is a main concern for several stakeholders, including health care providers, knowledge users (KU), policy makers, and those with lived-experience. Unlike in other developed countries, Canada does not have a comprehensive and harmonized Hub where stakeholders can go to obtain state-of-the art, valid, culturally-sensitive and up to date information on medication safety during pregnancy. This is unfortunate considering that Canada is a leader in research and training on Medications and Pregnancy. This void leaves over 500,000 pregnant people in Canada each year having unanswered questions about commonly used substances and unaware of potential critical risks. Over the past years, the Canadian Mother-Child Initiative has been put in place: a research component - The Canadian Mother-Child Research Cohorts (CAMCCO-Research, CIHR, CFI: www.motherchildcohort.ca ); and a training component - The Canadian Mother-Child Collaborative Training Platform (CAMCCO-Learn, CIHR, SPOR: www.camccol.ca). The CAMCCO Team includes over 70 researchers, knowledge-users, and decision-makers, and over 2,000 patient-partners from across Canada. We now propose to put in place a comprehensive and robust knowledge dissemination (KD) and implementation (KI) program, leveraging CAMCCO-Research and CAMCCO-Learn, that will serve all pregnant women taking medications during pregnancy - CAMCCO-Outreach. The primary goal of our proposed CAMCCO-Outreach Hub is to reduce inequalities of reproductive care outcomes through the effective translation of medication information/data into knowledge that pregnant people/health providers can employ in providing education, care, and inform policy, particularly for marginalized populations.